UID, GID, and all that

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:04:22PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> Mea culpa. I plead continuing jet-lag. That's what I get for using "reply"
> and changing the subject:. Odd that gmail doesn't catch this. Apologies, and
> no more hijackings.
> 
> 
> I solved the question I posted by doing a global find:
> 
>   $ find . -gid 1002 -exec chgrp joe {} +
> 
> which ran very quickly and did the trick. The pre-emptive strategy (Chris?) of
> getting it right first is clearly the Right Thing, but this fix was a decent
> second-best.

Seems like an excellent solution.

> I don't have anything to contribute about modems. Apparently I have at least
> one in a laptop, but I don't even know if it works under Linux -- never had
> the need to find out. How the times have changed.

Oh right, winmodems were a problem for a long time and then modems
went away.

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Len Sorensen
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